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* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/CaryGrant and Creator/DouglasFairbanksJr swapped roles.



** Creator/HowardHawks was in line to direct for a while.
** The title role was intended for the Indian actor Sabu, who had come to fame in ''Elephant Boy'' and would go on to star in ''Film/TheThiefOfBagdad1940'' and ''Film/JungleBook''. (''Elephant Boy'' and ''Jungle Book'' were, like ''Gunga Din'', inspired by the writings of Rudyard Kipling.)

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** Creator/HowardHawks was in line to direct for a while.
while. He was replaced when ''Film/BringingUpBaby'' flopped. He wanted either Creator/RobertDonat or Creator/RogerLivesey as Sgt. Archibald Cutter, Creator/SpencerTracy as Sgt. "Mac" [=MacChesney=] and Creator/RobertMontgomery as Sgt. Thomas "Tommy" Ballantine.
** The title role was intended for the Indian actor Sabu, who had come to fame in ''Elephant Boy'' and would go on to star in ''Film/TheThiefOfBagdad1940'' and ''Film/JungleBook''. (''Elephant Boy'' and ''Jungle Book'' were, like ''Gunga Din'', inspired by the writings of Rudyard Kipling.)Creator/{{Sabu}}.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Set in Northern India, filmed in the same stretch of California where many a movie cowboy fought the other kind of Indian.
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** The title role was intended for the Indian actor Sabu, who had come to fame in ''Elephant Boy'' and would go on to star in ''Film/TheThiefOfBagdad'' ''Film/TheThiefOfBagdad1940'' and ''Film/JungleBook''. (''Elephant Boy'' and ''Jungle Book'' were, like ''Gunga Din'', inspired by the writings of Rudyard Kipling.)
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!!''Film/GungaDin'' (the 1939 movie)

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** Creator/HowardHawks was in line to direct for a while.
** The title role was intended for the Indian actor Sabu, who had come to fame in ''Elephant Boy'' and would go on to star in ''Film/TheThiefOfBagdad'' and ''Film/JungleBook''. (''Elephant Boy'' and ''Jungle Book'' were, like ''Gunga Din'', inspired by the writings of Rudyard Kipling.)
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